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50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 41. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Tis But a Scratch

YouTube - Tis but a Scratch Alright, we'll all it a draw. The Black Knight is my favorite part of this comedy which has some other good moments I considered. Most of the skits are 8/10s at a minimum, but it's short. It clocks in at 90 minutes but the last words are spoken at about 80 minutes. It had these side clips of someone getting killed and the police investigating until at the end, when the police just show up and arrest the knights and that's the end of the movie. There's probably 60 golden minutes here though.  Links to some other great scenes -  YouTube - Bridge of Death YouTube - Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Robin YouTube - Stay Here, and Make Sure He Doesn't Leave the Room YouTube - What, Behind the Rabbit? and the Holy Hand Grenade YouTube - Knights Who Say Ni!
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50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 42. Troy - Hector! Hector!

YouTube - Achilles vs Hector I like 85% of the movie Troy. It's a little too long with a little too much fluff in places. I could watch every minute of either Brad Pitt or Eric Bana though when they are onscreen. So of course my favorite scene is their fight. Every time I watch it, I get a pit because they really treat Hector as the Aragorn of this movie, so it sucks when he dies with 30 minutes left.  However, I have also been re-watching the beginning quite a bit recently. It moves quickly sets the tone of the two main characters, good stuff.  YouTube - The Introduction of Achilles. This one isn't really rewatchable, but it's funny -  YouTube - Hector! Hector! Hector!

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 43. Gladiator - Maximus vs Tigris and the Team of Tigers

YouTube - You Simply Won't Die Gladiator is so very good. It was hard for me to put this movie in the list, because the whole thing is mostly rewatchable. Each of the fights are in contention here. The Tigris of Gaul fight is currently my favorite. It's kind of peak Maximus, where he has to face off against the undefeated Colosseum champion. If I had any complaint, it would be that I wish Tigris had more of a build up, or merely mentioned somewhere else prior in the movie. Here is a nice list of each of the scenes that I considered, but hey might as well just re-watch the whole thing. I'm looking at you future Steve. Many people like the opening battle sequence.  YouTube - Opening Battle Are you not entertained is one of the most famous lines from the movie. YouTube - Are You Not Entertained The reveal to the Emperor is the biggest oh snap moment of the movie. YouTube - My Name is Maximus Decimus Meridius The ending fight against the emperor is also rewatchable. YouTube - M...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 44. Braveheart - William Wallace Pep Talks

YouTube - Wallace's Last Will and Testament to Brendan Gleeson's Hamish YouTube Battle of Stirling I'm already kind of cheating just six movies in by posting two different scenes. The truth is I walk around all day with the following in my head: "You know what happens if you don't take that chance Steve?" "Nothing" But the actual rousing moment of this entire movie (not counting the mace scene) is the Battle of Stirling. Wallace's Freedom speech is a goodie. I don't care how inaccurate this movie is from a historical perspective, or how much of a looney toon that Gibson has become, or always was. I think this movie is fantastic. I don't watch it as much now as when I was younger. We have more options now and 3 hours is a sizeable request. The bronze medal would have to go to Longshanks throwing his son's male lover out the window.

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 45. War of the Worlds - Foghorn AlienTripodhorn

YouTube Link I highly dislike 90% of this movie. From the aliens with nothing interesting to do other than to go pew-pew, to the humans with nothing interesting to do other than run. The humans want to eat each other for a station wagon. Tom Cruise and his entire family are all annoying. The ending is awful, rushed and unearned. The 10% of the movie that I do like involves Tom’s character running from the tripods, or get taken by one. I love the foghorn sound the tripods make. The first introduction of the aliens has a mystery element as well as that haunting sound.

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 46. Spawn - No More Clowning Around

YouTube Link No one outside of comic book fans probably remembers this movie. Spawn was popular in the early 90s and eventually got a live action movie, two months after the incredibly silly Batman & Robin and two months after the Spawn animated HBO cartoon show came this revenge tale and what it means to be a hero. Those of us that do remember it probably do for several reasons.  They might remember the bad special effects, or at least some special effects that don't hold up to this day, and barely did even back 30 years ago in 1997. Malebolgia a stand in for the devil, was not much better than a picture someone made on Microsoft paint or something out of the Reboot tv show. The cape was mixed, at times it looked cool, other times it looked completely ridiculous.  They might remember it for Martin Sheen, who had no business being in this movie. The strange plot, where you get to keep someone's soul if you kill them, but they have to kill you first, maybe or something like...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 47. Jurassic Park - Enter the Rexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc_i5TKdmhs   I've probably watched this scene hundreds of times. The tension starts slow, "Is that the power coming back on?". Small rumbling, moving water, missing goat, the claw, the eye, the flashlight. We had only saw about 4 dinos so far at this point in the movie and one was a baby and the other was sick. We did see a Velociraptor kill in the beginning, but now having met these characters and kids, this is a whole new terror. I think it's the peak of what of what Dr. Grant does in any of the 4/5 movies he is in. Probably peak for Malcolm as well, maybe even the cowardly bathroom lawyer. The automated car turns around after the power goes out and the storm comes. Ellie is gone, but so is the lawyer once he gets once good look at Roberta. So what was a dud passing through the first time around, ole Rexy showed herself once the cars decided to stop next to her joint.